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“Let’s be very honest again,” Bolden said in a 2014 interview. “We don’t have a commercially available heavy lift vehicle. Falcon 9 Heavy may someday come about. It’s on the drawing board right now. SLS is real. You’ve seen it down at Michoud. We’re building the core stage. We have all the engines done, ready to be put on the test stand at Stennis… I don’t see any hardware for a Falcon 9 Heavy, except that he’s going to take three Falcon 9s and put them together and that becomes the Heavy. It’s not that easy in rocketry.”
Narrator: “It was not, in fact, that easy, but despite the challenges of building a triple-core rocket, Falcon Heavy was completed nearly five years ahead of SLS, and flew four missions during that time. Falcon Heavy has performed eleven launches thus far, while SLS is yet to see its second flight.”